Webinar series: Building Safe Futures Deep dives into what works to end childhood sexual violence

The Safe Futures Hub is thrilled to launch Building Safe Futures – Deep Dives into What Works to End Childhood Sexual Violence, a seven-part webinar series based on the Building Safe Futures evidence review. This series consolidates global learning on interventions to prevent and respond to childhood sexual violence, focusing on low- and middle-income countries, where risks are highest and evidence base has been the thinnest.  

Each session will delve into one of the seven INSPIRE strategies, weaving together insights from research and practice.

This series aims to move from evidence to action by: 

• Sharing accessible insights on prevention and response;
• Showcasing programmes with measurable impact;
• Strengthening practitioner–researcher exchange; and
• Generating practical recommendations for policy, programming, and investment. 

Together, we can accelerate progress and build safer environments for children everywhere. 

13th May 2026 | 9:30 AM EST / 2:30 PM CET / 4:30 PM EAT | Register

The third session in the Building Safe Futures webinar series will focus on norms and values, and why they are central to preventing childhood sexual violence. 

The Safe Futures Hub Evidence Review shows that prevention efforts are stronger when they directly challenge the norms and structures that enable abuse. Gender-transformative programs, structured community engagement, and bystander approaches can strengthen clear expectations around consent, equality, and responsibility. Interventions that actively involve caregivers, men and boys, faith leaders, and other community influencers help shift collective standards of behavior and reinforce accountability. 

At the same time, changing norms is complex and takes time. Measuring progress is challenging, and there is still more to understand about how these efforts adapt across different contexts, including online spaces. 

In this session, experts and practitioners will share their experience from implementation, reflect on lessons learned, and speak to the gaps identified in the evidence. Together, we will examine what has made norm-focused work effective in real settings, what obstacles continue to stand in the way, and what needs to shift to strengthen prevention efforts. 

The second session in the Building Safe Futures webinar series explores education as a critical pathway to preventing childhood sexual violence. 

Evidence from the Building Safe Futures review highlights the impact of education-based interventions. Comprehensive sexuality education, life skills programmes, and school-based violence prevention initiatives are associated with improved understanding of consent, bodily autonomy, and healthy relationships. 

At the same time, schools can also be sites of risk. Persistent challenges include peer and authority-perpetrated violence, weak safeguarding systems, and barriers to access for the most marginalized children. 

This session shares the latest evidence, highlights promising practice-based approaches, and explores what it takes to make schools safer for all children. We look at where education systems are working well, where challenges remain, and what needs to change to strengthen prevention and response. 

The first session in the series focused on parenting and caregiver support, a cornerstone in preventing childhood sexual violence. The evidence is clear: when equipped with the right tools, parents and caregivers become powerful protectors, with ripple effects that can transform families and communities. The Building Safe Futures evidence review highlights parenting programmes as among the most effective interventions, showing measurable reductions in sexual violence when programmes are well designed and implemented. 

This session shared the latest evidence, spotlighted effective interventions from the review, and opened space for dialogue on how to strengthen caregiver support worldwide. We will also reflect on what is missing, how to make these efforts more inclusive and where we need to go next. 

Join us to explore how supporting parents and caregivers helps not only prevent harm, but build trust, resilience, and safe futures for all children.